Rafael Cintrón Ortiz Latino Cultural Center

year at a glance2014–2015

our visionis a world in which the distribution of resources is equitable, and Latinos, Latin Americans, and all other members of the world are healthy and secure.

our missiontherefore, is to expand the appreciation for — and understanding of — Latino cultures on campus and throughout local communities, as well as to ensure that Latina/o students have a positive self-defined identity and practical tools to help them graduate, join the workforce, and become the next generation of leaders.

Top photo: (left to right) Dr. Rosa M. Cabrera, LCC Director; Paula Bui, Program Coordinator; Mario A. Lucero, Assistant Director; and Edith Tovar, Program Coordinator. Bottom photo: (left to right) Lena G. Reynolds, Graduate Assistant; Ian Torres, Office Assistant; Jocelyn Munguía, Office Assistant; and Alonzo Zamarron, Graphic Design Assistant. Not shown, Cristina Correa, Graduate Assistant.

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creating cultural responses to social conditions

engaging campus and local communitiesDuring the 2014-2015 academic year, the Latino Cultural Center (LCC) presented a rich series of public programs and civic dialogues that addressed pressing social issues affecting the lives of Latinos and Latin Americans while making connections to other communities. The LCC continued to be a welcoming place of teaching, learning, empowerment, and creativity for guests who attended our public programs, mural dialogues and tours; gathered for meetings and workshops in our Gallery; or had study sessions in our Student Computer Lab.

Our Program Series featured cultural and artistic expressions, intercultural and civic dialogues, scholarly presentations, and first-voice stories; and specifically drew on assets of cultural heritage to address contemporary issues. These programs and initiatives included Zona Abierta (Open Zone), Civic Cinema, Noche de Poetas (Poetry Night), and Telling Our Stories. We also hosted the 23rd Annual UIC Chicago Latino Film Festival, presented a year-long series on chocolate, supported our undocumented students through various programs and activities, expanded our civic dialogue programming, launched a new dialogue initiative with the Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change (CCUSC) that addressed issues of masculinity and privilege, provided program infrastructure and instruction for the Heritage Garden Internship Program, and shared a leadership role in helping UIC attain designation as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).

The Latino Cultural Center is one of six Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change under the Office of Diversity in Academic Affairs at UIC. The CCUSC’s collective purpose is to expand understanding of the value of cultural diversity and connect diverse assets to find creative solutions for common challenges. We collaborated in various programs and initiatives listed in this report.

The Latino Cultural Center received support throughout the year from faculty and staff, students, and community leaders who engaged in public programs that reflected their expertise and leadership. Through their collaborative efforts, and with the support of our Ambassadors Group, we continued to strengthen, and disseminate the LCC’s work on campus, in local communities, and beyond. Visitors who experienced our interactive presentations, dialogues, tours, and creative workshops reported new learning and greater cultural understanding. We recorded a total of 14,898 visitations this year.

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We presented 63 public programs

We facilitated 31 civic dialogues and tours

We convened our 40-member Ambassadors Group

We mentored 17 student interns and leaders

We worked with 2 graduate assistants

We employed 4 student workers

We presented programs with 23 faculty and staff

We collaborated with 29 community schools and organizations

Our programs were co-sponsored by 27 UIC student organizations

What they attended

2,788 attendees at LCC public programs 19%

2,446 Gallery space visits 16%

835 arts-based civic dialogues/mural tours 6%

3,526 computer lab visits 24%

5,118 guests hosted for meetings/events via space reservations 34%

185 additional visits via events held at community partner locations 1%

Who attended

African, African-American, Black 3.8%

American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Asian and other Pacific Islander 5%

European Descent, White 5%

Latina/o 52%

Middle Eastern 3%

Mixed Ethnicity 3%

No Response 28%

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The Latino Cultural Center’s programs and initiatives focused on major themes about the history and future of chocolate, immigration and labor, and the environment and climate change. The following are a few examples:

from ancient mesoamerica to the present“Chocolate: Drink of Gods, Food of Mortals,” a series presented by the LCC in partnership with the Department of Anthropology, Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) Program, and the National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA). This year-long project used cacao to explore the relationship between culture, memory, food, and identity—from ancient Mesoamerica to the present—as a globally coveted indulgence.

Under this theme, we presented a variety of public programs facilitated by humanities scholars, artists, and community experts at the LCC and NMMA. Presentations included: the history of chocolate in Mesoamerican art and culture in Maya communities—both past and present; sustainable chocolate production models, farming and chocolate in fair trade systems; the use of chocolate in traditional Mexican cuisine, cacao (kakaw) in Maya hieroglyphs, and chocolate as a tool of social consciousness for indigenous communities of Veracruz, Mexico through music and dance. Altogether, the project engaged over 500 students and community members.

This chocolate series culminated with an exhibit that highlights the origins of cacao, chocolate around the world, in Chicago, and the future of chocolate through an environmental and social justice lens. The exhibit was curated by our Graduate Assistant, Lena G. Reynolds in Museum and Exhibition Studies, and is being displayed at the UIC Daley Library until April 2016. Inspired by the success of this series, we continued to collect recipes and stories about chocolate on our website at: latinocultural.uic.edu/chocolate-exhibit.

WBEZ’s “Worldview” (91.5 FM Chicago) interviewed the LCC’s Director, Rosa M. Cabrera, and promoted a cooking demonstration at the NMMA by La Catrina Café owner who shared a chocolate mole recipe; winner of the 2013 Mole de Mayo competition in Pilsen. The interview was broadcast live, now available at: soundcloud.com/wbez-worldview/weekend-passport-how-chocolate-unites-communities.

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affirming diverse identities and advocating change Under the theme “Migration and Transformation,” shared by the CCUSC, the LCC continued to use its Butterfly Postcard Campaign to explore the parallels between the migration of people and Monarch butterflies across national borders. The campaign served as a unifying call-to-action to support undocumented students on campus, and it highlighted the different migration experiences of people living in the U.S. and how this shaped their identities and sense of belonging on campus and in our society. We collected and shared these stories on our website: latinocultural.uic.edu/stories/migration-and-transformation.

Through the lens of immigration and labor issues, the LCC continued to unpack the meaning of citizenship and cultural agency of individuals by highlighting how undocumented students, community activists, and allies are challenging ideas of citizenship, claiming rights, and creating a sense of belonging in U.S. society.

“Suspended Lives: Immigrant Families in Detention Centers,” a public program in partnership with the Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC). Students learned about the history, current policies, legal actions, and grassroots efforts on the pressing social issue of family detention. Previously, the NIJC delivered our Butterfly Postcards, drawings and letters of support to the Karnes Family Detention Center in Texas to support the mothers and children detained there.

De Aquí y de Allá: Los Otros Dreamers (From Here and There: The Other Dreamers), a bilingual workshop that explored transborder identity, binational/transnational citizenship, and the legal, economic, and socio-cultural gaps between the two. Participants crafted their own border-crossing stories using the Butterfly Postcards while learning from the testimonios of deported and returning youth in Mexico as featured in the book Los Otros Dreamers by Jill Anderson. This program was in partnership with the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, and the LALS Program.

“Coming Out of the Shadows,” a rally organized by Fearless Undocumented Alliance (FUA) that shattered the silence on campus and demanded access to higher education for undocumented students. UIC students publicly came out as undocumented and allies at the UIC Quad while a crowd of over 200 listened to their courageous stories and testimonies of struggle and resiliency. After the story-sharing demonstration, over 60 students, faculty and staff convened at the LCC to discuss undocumented students’ access to financial aid.

“Your Voice, Our Stories” (Fight for $15 / Lucha por $15), a series of conversations with fast food strikers that highlighted the Fight for $15 campaign, seeking a living wage of $15 an hour and union rights. Through our Zona Abierta and Noche de Poetas public programs, the LCC stood in solidarity with the labor movement, which included undocumented immigrants who have stepped up, risking deportation. Furthermore, the “Fight for $15 on April 15” rally in Chicago made its way to the UIC East Campus where thousands of people gathered in support for higher wages.

“Chicago’s Families: Where Community Begins,” a citywide exhibit with the Chicago Cultural Alliance spanning 19 cultural centers and museums that presented a mosaic of voices, memories, and experiences of diverse families in Chicago. The LCC partnered with Casa Michoacán and developed a photographic exhibit project titled “Migrants: Building Identity Beyond Borders,” which featured eighteen stories from Mexican and Latina/o migrants. The exhibit is being displayed at Casa Michoacán from June to August 2015.

“Access to College and Career Education for Statewide Success” (ACCESS). The LCC joined forces with the Student ACCESS Bill Task Force and FUA, alongside other UIC campus units, to push for a state bill that would support undocumented students with state financial assistance for higher education. Together, with other state universities and community organizations, we collected stories from students throughout the state to support this bill. As part of this movement, we used the Butterfly Postcards to collect stories and mailed them to Illinois legislators.

“Arts, Political Activation, & Immigration,” an essay by the LCC’s Director, Rosa M. Cabrera, analyzed the role of arts in political activism and immigration, and how this may unfold in the next 10 or 15 years. This essay was featured in the book called Arts and America: Arts, Culture and the Future of America’s Communities; released at the American for the Arts 2015 Annual Convention held in Chicago. Download the essay at: americansforthearts.org.

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Through a new collaborative effort between the CCUSC, the LCC hosted a series of dialogue gatherings that explored the topic of masculinity.

The “Reimagining Masculinity” Initiative provided a space for individuals–with a focus on men–to discuss issues of masculinity and intersecting identities. Dialogue topics included: masculinity in the media, hypermasculinity in sports, consent, gender, and meanings and understandings of masculinity. The initiative explored ways for men to be thoughtfully involved in changing systems of oppression through 10 dialogue gatherings and a film screening of “The Mask You Live In,” which engaged over 200 students and community members.

connecting stories and skills for collective action The Latino Cultural Center staff facilitated arts-based civic dialogues and mural tours using our mural, El Despertar de las Americas (The Awakening of the Americas). Students from across the city participated in these dialogues and tours to explore social issues and their role as agents of social change. Through the power of personal stories and skill sharing, participants were able to reflect and spark ideas for action. Over 800 students participated in these dialogues and tours alongside their parents, counselors, and teachers. Several of the dialogue sessions included time for staff from the Latin American Recruitment and Educational Services (LARES) Program to share information with students and families about the UIC admissions process.

We became a member of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (Coalition) in 2014, which is the only worldwide network dedicated to activating the power of places of memory to engage the public in connecting past and present in order to envision and shape a more just future. Through this new collaboration, LCC staff strengthened dialogue facilitating skills to help participants connect their stories, skills and talents for collective action.

As part of the Immigration and Civil Rights Network that collaborate on the “National Dialogues on Immigration Project,” an initiative of the Coalition, we united efforts with the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and hosted the network in Chicago. Over 50 practitioners of museums and cultural centers from across the country shared best practices on dialogue facilitation on immigration. As a result, the LCC developed an Immigration Model for its Arts-Based Civic Dialogue programming.

infusing relevance to contemporary life The Latino Cultural Center’s mural continues to be one of our greatest cultural assets that we draw upon to conduct tours and civic dialogues. The different scenes in the mural serve to spark these dialogues by linking the past to the present. We invited Maestro Hector Duarte to submit ideas to revise certain scenes in the mural, in order to infuse relevance to contemporary social and environmental issues. This effort yielded a rich process with discussions between the Maestro and LCC staff to explore questions such as: when does public art become a record of history? and should public art be open to revisions? We also engaged our Ambassadors Group in viewing the sketches for the revisions, and received important feedback from members. Maestro Duarte completed the revisions to four mural scenes this summer.

linking environmental sustainability and cultural diversity The Latino Cultural Center continued to expand the Heritage Garden with two new satellites and a Monarch Habitat. There are currently eight satellite gardens on the east side of campus that interns sustain thanks to the UIC Sustainability Fee, which continued to fund this project. The six Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change collaborate on this project with program infrastructure and instruction provided by the LCC.

The two new satellites located on the east side of Lecture Center E featured a raised planter for wheelchair accessibility and native plants that were moved there from the American Indian Center garden in the north side of Chicago. The LCC collaborated with the Native American Support Program to establish a new home for the native plants.

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The Monarch Habitat was established in front of the LCC, thanks to a generous grant from the USDA Forest Service International Programs. Plants on the habitat include milkweed and nectar flowers that help conserve the Monarch and attract other pollinators. As part of this project, the interns salvaged two concrete cigarette ash urns from UIC and transformed them into planters with beautiful artwork depicting Monarch butterflies. The Monarch is used as a symbol of immigration and transformation to highlight the different migration experiences of people living in the U.S. and how this shapes their identities and sense of belonging in our society.

During the week of Earth Day, the LCC partnered with the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Office of Sustainability, and with scholars from The Field Museum to present a series of public programs and workshops, including a seed swapping workshop with seeds from the Heritage Garden Seed Library. Student leaders and interns continued to diversify and grow the Seed Library collection through seed swaps with gardeners, organizations, and community members in the Chicago area. See the current seed catalogue: heritagegarden.uic.edu/seedlibrary.

creating a pipeline for graduate school and beyondThe Latino Cultural Center shared a leadership role in preparing UIC to attain HSI designation. We collaborated with LALS Program, LARES Program, Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program, Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Latinos (CCSL), and the Hispanic Center of Excellence in designing and conducting a campus survey to better understand the needs of UIC Latina/o students. We used the findings to develop the “Latina/o Students Growing Abilities Needed for Academic Success” (L@S GANAS) project submitted to the US Department of Education.

The long-term outcomes of this project are to increase retention and graduation of UIC’s undergraduate Latina/o students, and their progression into graduate and professional study and higher-level jobs.

Zona Abierta (Open Zone)El Caribe Hoy - The Caribbean Today. September 17, 2014. Presented with the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance. Presenter: Carlos Hernandez.

Fight for 15. September 25, 2014. Presented with the Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago. Presenters: Nancy Salgado and Adriana Sanchez.

Seeds of Justice. October 15, 2014. Presented with Little Village Environmental Justice Organization. Presenters: Viviana Moreno and Karen Canales.

Suspended Lives: Immigrant Families in Detention Centers. November 19, 2014. Presented with the Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center. Presenter: Jennifer Chan.

Artistic Justice: Redefining Community Space. March 4, 2015. Presenter: Maria Gaspar.

Fight for 15 / Lucha por 15. March 12, 2015. Presented with the Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago. Presenter: Adriana Sanchez.

Mariachi on Campus. March 18, 2015. Presented with the School of Theatre and Music. Presenter: Javier José Mendoza.

Putas y guerrilleras. April 1, 2015. Presented with the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Presenter: Miriam Lewin.

De Aquí y de Allá: Los Otros Dreamers. April 8, 2015. Presented with the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program. Presenters: Jill Anderson and L@s Otr@s Dreamers: Daniel Arenas, Hector Bolivar, and Patricia Carolina.

At the Frontline of Climate Change. April 20, 2015. Presented with Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and the Native American Support Program. Presenters: James St. Goddard, Nikos Pastos, and Carl Wassilie.

Sofrito by Jorge Félix. April 23, 2015. Presented with the Heritage Garden Student Group. Presenter: Jorge Félix.

Civic Cinema Plastic Paradise. September 23, 2014. Presented with the UIC Office of Sustainability. Post-Screening Discussion Facilitator: Cynthia Klein-Banai.

Who is Dayani Cristal? October 1, 2014. Presented with National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities. Post-Screening Discussion Facilitators: Oscar Chacon and Jóse Luis Gutiérrez.

The Homestretch. November 11, 2014. Post-Screening Discussion Facilitator: Maria Rivera.

Standing on Sacred Ground - Fire and Ice. April 22, 2015. Presented with The Field Museum. Post-Screening Discussion Facilitators: Alaka Wali and Diana Alvira.

No Más Bebés. April 28, 2015. Presented with the Gender and Women’s Studies Program. Post-Screening Discussion Facilitator: Elena R. Gutierrez.

Noche de Poetas (Poetry Night)Presented with the Mexican Students de Aztlán (MeSA), Students for the Advancement of Freedom, Equality and Human Rights (SAFEHR), Students for

Justice in Palestine (SJP), and Union for Puerto Rican Students (UPRS).

#AllStudentsMatterUIC. September 11, 2014. Presented with Black Student Union. Featured poet: Malcolm London.

Love Shouldn’t Hurt. October 9, 2014. Featured poet: Janeida Rivera-Rodríguez.

Students as Agents for Human Rights! November 13, 2014. Featured poet: Mylo Reyes.

Food for Thought. February 12, 2015. Featured poet: Soraya Elzeibak.

Your Voice, Our Voices. March 12, 2015. Presented with Fight for 15. Featured poet: Sonia Acuña.

2014 – 2015 public programs

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Without Borders: Reimagining Cultural Identity. April 9, 2015. Featured poets: Remi Kanazi and Luis Tubéns.

Telling Our StoriesDeath Makes Life Possible - Film. October 28, 2014. Presented with the Department of Anthropology. Post-Screening Discussion Facilitator: Madeleine Halac-Higashimori.

Communal Altar Installation - Workshop. October 29, 2014. Presented with Mexican Students de Aztlán (MeSA).

A Celebration of Life and Death - Performance and Storytelling. October 30, 2014. Presenters: Laura Crotte and Jasmin Cardenas.

UndocuAlly LOVE Messages. February 12, 2015. Presented with Fearless Undocumented Alliance.

Special ProgramsFall Open House. August 27, 2014.

Fall Open House for Student Orgs. September 10, 2014.

National Voter Registration Day. September 23, 2014. Presented with the African-American Cultural Center, Gender and Sexuality Center, Women’s Leadership Resource Center, and community partner Chicago Votes.

Home Grown Herbs: A Hands-on Harvesting Workshop. October 8, 2014. Presented with the Heritage Garden Student Group.

Halloween Harvest: Get down and dirty with the UIC Heritage Garden! October 27, 2014. Presented with the Heritage Garden Student Group.

Spring Open House. January 14, 2015.

Spring Open House for Student Orgs. January 21, 2015.

People’s State of the Union. January 27, 2015. Presented by the Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change.

Circle back UIC Forward. February 22, 2015. Presented by the UIC Alumni Association.

Heritage Garden: Spring Seed Swap! March 29, 2015. Presented with the Heritage Garden Student Group.

The 23rd Annual UIC Chicago Latino Film Festival. April 14, 2015 – April 16, 2015. Presented with the International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago.

Im/Migration. June 12, 2015. Presented with Casa Michoacán and Chicago Cultural Alliance.

Arts-Based Civic Dialogue (ABC Dialogue) InitiativeOpen Dialogue Day. October 3, 2014.

Student Leadership ABC Dialogues: February 13 and 25, March 13, April 1 and 17, 2015.

ABC Dialogues: September 22, October 24, November 21, and December 16, 2014; and February 25, March 18, April 9, May 12, June 9, July 8, 15, 21and 28 2015.

Chocolate: Drink of Gods, Food of MortalsA series presented with the Department of Anthropology, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, and the National Museum of Mexican Art.

Chocolate in Mesoamerican Art and Culture. September 18 and 20, 2014. Presenters: Joel Palka and Virginia Miller.

Sharing Chocolate and Community Bonding. October 2, 2014. Presenter: Santiago Juarez.

Nothing Like Chocolate. October 23, 2014. Presenter: Martin Macias.

Chocolate in Pilsen: Cuisine and Heritage. December 13, 2014. Presenter: Salvador Corona.

Cacao (Kakaw) in Maya Hieroglyphs. January 28, 2015. Presenters: Joel Palka and Graduate Students: Madeleine Halac-Higashimori, Caleb Kestle, and James Meierhoff.

Fair Trade Chocolate is Divine. February 11, 2015. Presenter: Molly Doane.

The Sustainability of Chocolate. March 5, 2015. Presenter: Ruth Lopez.

Choco-Stories Workshop. March 11, 2015. Presenter: Lena G. Reynolds.

Chocolate Fandango: Community Identity and Son Jarocho. April 9, 2015. Presenters: Colectivo Altepee and Jarochicanos.

Chocolate: Drink of Gods, Food of Mortals Exhibit - Opening Reception. April 30, 2015. Presenters: Lena G. Reynolds and Mario A. Lucero.

Reimagining Masculinity InitiativePresented by the Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change.

What Does Masculinity Mean to You? September 9, October 14, and November 11, 2014.

Emotions, Identities, and Masks. January 22, 2015.

Super Bowl, Hypermasculinity, and Sports. February 5, 2015.

Relationships, Power, and Fifty Shades. February 19, 2015.

Men, Masculinities, and Media. March 5, 2015.

The Mask You Live In - Screening and Community Dialogue. March 9, 2015.

The Gendering of Our Lives. March 19, 2015.

Masculinity Without Men. April 2, 2015.

Practicing Ongoing Consent. April 23, 2015.

UIC campus units African-American Cultural Center (AACC); Campus Advocacy Network (CAN); Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change (CCUSC); Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Latinos (CCSL); Department of Anthropology; Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies; Gender and Sexuality Center (GSC); Gender and Women’s Studies Program; Great Cities Institute (GCI); Honors College; Jane Addams Hull-House Museum; Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) Program; Latin American Recruitment and Educational Services (LARES) Program; Native American Support Program; Office of Public and Government Affairs; Office of Sustainability; School of Literatures, Cultural Studies, and Linguistics; School of Theatre and Music; Sustainable Remediation Forum (SURF); Social Justice Initiative (SJI); and the Women’s Leadership and Resource Center (WLRC).

UIC student organization co-sponsors Alpha Psi Lambda, Black Student Union (BSU), Delta Psi Alpha, Delta Xi Phi, EcoCampus, Fearless Undocumented Alliance (FUA), Feminists United (FU), Gamma Phi Omega, Health Oriented Latino Association (HOLA), Heritage Garden Student Group, Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE), Lambda Theta Alpha, Lambda Theta Phi, Lambda Upsilon Lambda, Latino Association of Business Students (LABS), Latino Educators United for Change (LUCHA), Latino Pre-Medical Student Association, Leaders Involved in Further Education (LIFE), Mexican Students de Aztlán (MeSA), Movement Against Sexual Violence (MASV), Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlán (M.E.Ch.A), Omega Delta Phi, Sigma Lambda Gamma, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Undergraduate Student Government, Union for Puerto Rican Students (UPRS), United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS).

a special thanks to our partnersand supporters

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Community, city-wide, and global engagement 96 Acres Project, Alaska’s Big Village Network (ABVN), Americans for the Arts, Beacon Hill Preparatory Academy, Cameron Elementary School, Casa Michoacán, Chicago Votes, Chicago Cultural Alliance (CCA), Clay Elementary School, Colectivo Altepee, De La Salle (DLS) Institute, Eighteenth Street Development Corporation (ESDC), Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino, Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center, Instituto Justice Leadership Academy (IJLA), International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, Jarochicanos, John M. Palmer Elementary School, Kelly High School, L@s Otr@s Dreamers Collective, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), Little Village Lawndale High School (LVLHS) Campus, Mujeres Latinas en Acción, National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC), National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA), Puerto Rican Arts Alliance (PRAA), The Field Museum, U.S. Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC), and the Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago (WOCC).

Latino Cultural Center Ambassadors Group – 2014-2015Ada N. Lopez – University of Illinois Board of TrusteesAlicia J. Rodríguez – Hispanic Center of ExcellenceAmalia Pallares – Dept. of Political Science & LALS Program Aixa Alfonso – Dept. of Biological Sciences & CCSLCesáreo Moreno – National Museum of Mexican ArtCynthia Klein-Banai – Office of SustainabilityEduardo A. Muñoz – UIC StudentEmily Williams – Social Justice InitiativeFrancesca Gaiba – Institute of Research on Race and Public Policy Hugo Teruel – LARES ProgramIan Torres – UIC StudentIrina Zadov – Jane Addams Hull-House MuseumIván Arenas – Institute of Research on Race and Public PolicyJaclyn Rodriguez – UIC studentJavier Villa-Flores – LALS ProgramJocelyn Munguía – UIC StudentJoel Palka – Dept. of Anthropology & LALS ProgramJorge Félix – Puerto Rican Arts AllianceJosé Luis Gutiérrez – Casa Michoacán

Karina Reyes – Dept. of PsychologyKendal Parker – CHANCE ProgramLorena García – Dept. of Sociology & LALS ProgramMarta Ayala – LALS ProgramMartha L. Gutierrez – Public and Governmental Affairs Martin Macias – UIC StudentPaula Melissa Hernandez – College of MedicineMolly Doane – Dept. of Anthropology & LALS Program Myriam Del Angel-Miranda – Business Career CenterNatalie Cruz – UIC StudentNilda Flores-Gonzalez – Dept. of Sociology & LALS ProgramRicardo Martinez – UIC StudentRosemarie Dominguez – UIC StudentRoxana Delgado – UIC StudentRuben Bautista – UIC StudentSara Agate – UIC AlumniSara Vogt – Disability Resource CenterSarah Bird – CHANCE ProgramSilvia A. Malagrino – School of Art and Design Symone Simmons – Gender and Sexuality CenterWilliam Rodriguez – Student Affairs

The Latino Cultural Center and Heritage Garden received grants from the UIC Sustainability Fee and the USDA Forest Service International Programs.

Rafael Cintrón Ortiz Latino Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago803 S. Morgan St., Lecture Center B2, Chicago, IL 60607 (312) 996-3095

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